Lorian Merriman

self-promo post: my Kirkus-starred debut fantasy graphic novel MAELSTROM: A PRINCE OF EVIL came out earlier this year! 🔥 😈 It's a rollicking adventure YA with queer/trans themes about two wacky teens who subvert destiny with an unlikely teamup. Links below 🔽 #comics #mapoe #art #books

Heeeey. You know a great way to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day? But my book! It tells the story of four Lipan Apache cousins who defy fate. Five starred reviews, and just released this week! Wowie look at that cover by Abigail Rajunov. <3 Thanks for sharing it, Mom! bookshop.org/p/books/chil...

EPISODE ONE is live!! Tune in to learn all about this curious example of Chilean folklore! The Caleuche! #paranormal #ghosts #folklore #chile

I'm trying to do a sort of #drawtober challenge, with the characters from my upcoming comic, ALL KNIGHTS DIE FOR GLORY!! it's a story about a tournament that happens only once or twice in a lifetime of a person, in which knights can pledge for a favour of a saint to be their patron-

🫵 agents: pick up rowan (but also remember the rules of dvpit and don't like the op if you aren't an agent or an editor!)

A mysterious Lady, a run-away train, and friendships as strained as ever... all aboard for FATE'S RUN, the unstoppable sequel to HUNGER'S BITE! Releasing April 27th, 2027! Pre-order at your favorite book retailer! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/taylo...

"My Husband" now for free on Youtube. A short film by Remus & Kiki, co-created with Mitko Karakolev (Blink studio). Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzeR...

If you’ve ever wanted to read my comics for FREE, I’ve got SIX titles available for you to borrow right now on the Hoopla Digital library app @hoopladigital.bsky.social, courtesy of Aggregate Ink. Go support your local library (and me) and check them out! 📚✨

a horse with no name

nosi panel i like a lot :)

clear skies, good swing out west.

After being down for a year, my 2023 gay fantasy romance comic about pseudo-Victorian medievalists has a new "edition"... new cover, minor edits, & I've relettered the whole thing. It'll be available on itch later this month, but it's also available to read on Patreon right now. patreon.com/theoplum

I'm genuinely so excited that I can finally start sharing HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY with you -- starting with the cover, which features a very obscure dinosaur you probably haven't heard of bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

🌟 HEAVY ARE THE YEARS is now live on Kickstarter!! 🌟 This book is a Stardust Collaboration with @wildstarpress.bsky.social with a special collaboration from @gegallas.bsky.social of Open Book Chocolates! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...

likely pair

five years ago on 9/7, my debut graphic novel EIGHTY DAYS came out in bookstores. the work of my life (so far) 🖤

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SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Sketchbook page

Mistria's full 1.0 release arrives tomorrow, 8/5! @aidosaur.bsky.social & I have been working on it since 2019-- seven years!! -- as Senior Writer & Character/Concept Artist! I wrote thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue... I hope they make you laugh and feel things! See you in the Fields! 💖

for the low low price of FREE you can read my friend's novella about some deeply tormented boys 🔥🔥🔥

www.tigertigercomic.com/tiger-tiger/... five new pages... link goes to the first one!

i want to share my nightreign art on the nightreign sub but i am a perpetual reddit lurker. need to figure out how to farm 33 karma in the next 3 hours (which is when I predict I will lose interest). May have to recruit my cute dog

bagcraftin' ain't easy but someone's gotta do it #nightreign (I switched from a Wylder main to a Scholar main and this is my life now)

we are so conditioned to lying, all the time. we are conditioned to think a little lady translator ought to hold her tongue for a great man director. that a full professor at a top university ought not use her critical faculties on her life’s work because that might… bsky.app/profile/gwil...

Jurassic Park is a perfect franchise because the question "why would they keep doing this" is answered by simply asking yourself if you would want to go see a dinosaur. Of course you would want to see a dinosaur.

still not happy with the values but whatever i need to keep lining the rest first

my "dark" secret is the amount of time spent staring at/rereading my own work like teehee... i made that... for me... to my exact specifications... hurray... and if it doesn't give me that feeling then I'm usually too lazy to share it anyways. I love art